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We are really looking forward to hosting our first conference in London in just under two months focusing on systems innovation in the public sector in collaboration with Si London Hub. The lineup of speakers is taking shape, take a look at this slide to see who is coming. You can find full event info and booking here: https://lnkd.in/ezzistvx Mariell Juhlin Isaac Reilly Toby Lowe Rowan Conway Maarten Lens-FitzGerald Joss Colchester Florian Schwendinger Benjamin P. Taylor Karen den Hertog Louis Klein Dr Rachel Lilley John Mortimer Tim Hobbs About the event: Systems Innovation Public Sector Conference will be a unique in-person one-day gathering for systems thinkers, innovators, and change-makers in the public sector taking place in London on Feb 14th.     Through a combination of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and open spaces hosted by people working on systems innovation in the public sector, the event offers the opportunity to connect, discuss, and learn about the state of systems innovation in government today. Who should join     The conference is for anyone working in or around government at all levels from local to national to international and across all departments for you to learn about a new set of ideas and approaches for tackling wicked challenges, while also making valuable new connections.     This event is hosted by the Si Governance and London hub as we believe these "systems approach" now offer huge potential for really changing the way we do things in the public sector at a scale relevant to the most significant challenges we face as civil servants.

While many profound conversations are underway about the need for a European Digital Stack, this is a modest contribution reflecting on the work we’re engaged in, the strategic gaps, opportunities, and necessities we observe, and the imperative for Europe—as a whole—to respond. It also hints at the potential and need for building a broader alliance (beyond the boundary of Europe) to emerge in addressing these challenges. Welcome the conversation [ usually the conversation in the thread is more interesting than the piece :) ]

The past few weeks, we have been ideating on the key themes we wish to explore at our upcoming conference - take a look at this slide to see some of the questions we will be discussing. Full event info here: https://lnkd.in/ezzistvx Maarten Lens-FitzGerald Isaac Reilly Florian Schwendinger Mariell Juhlin

"The world is complex. If we want to contribute to creating positive social outcomes, we must learn to embrace this complexity. This is the New World that funders and commissioners are discovering" Exploring the new world: Practical insights for funding, commissioning and managing in complexity from Collaborate CIC https://lnkd.in/eeQhM7zD This report is designed to do two things: • Increase our understanding of what a complexity–informed approach looks like in practice, from the perspective of funders, public sector commissioners and those who work on ground • Provide some practical examples and tools to support organisations that want to adopt this way of working

Leading up to our first conference in Feb we want to introduce you to some of the great people who will be joining to start fostering connections early. Today, we spotlight Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, who will be chairing the event. Maarten is a core team member with the Si Governance hub as well as team lead at the innovation department City of Amsterdam. Maarten is a person who thrives on working with trends and movements that shape the future. You can find full info about the conference here: https://lnkd.in/ezzistvx

In this upcoming event Indy Johar will explore how to drive change across multi-agent systems, and how to tackle large-scale coordination problems and challenges. Using case studies and recent work from Dark Matter Labs, he will consider the kinds of infrastructure we need to overcome coordination challenges, so that we can effect positive change across complex systems. https://lnkd.in/eiacNGSs Hosted by UK Government's Policy Design Community and London Policy and Strategy Network

How might we shift the paradigm in the public sector from creating more departments, taskforces or groups toward more fluid, networked and cohesive forms of ecosystems that enable more coherent and effective collaboration? One of the topics we discuss in our position paper: https://lnkd.in/erAGJfSy

There are really important insights here that could help policymakers move away from planning change - as if we can predict and control - and start working with the "evolutionary potential" of complex adaptive systems. What are your thoughts on this?

Over the coming weeks leading up to our conference in London, we want to introduce you to some of the members of our hub who will be speaking at the conference and some of the great work they are doing to apply systems thinking in the public sector Today we start with Mariell Juhlin, a hub core team member who was instrumental in founding SustainGov and leading their programs. At the conference, Mariell will be sharing her insights and experience in trying to make a more transformative kind of change happen across Sweden's local authorities. Full event info and booking open here: https://lnkd.in/ezzistvx

How might we shift to more decentralized forms of governance to respond effectively to the complex environments and set of challenges presented to the public sector today? One of the themes we are exploring in our hub: https://lnkd.in/eYkhEFmX